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gelgoog

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Will China develop an NK-12-equivalent engine to power her future airlifters? With a max power output of more than 11000 kW for the latter variants, the NK-12 is the most powerful turboprop engine in the world, ever.
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The NK-12 was designed after WW2 ended. By a team of German and Soviet scientists. And it is still unrivaled in its power level. A major accomplishment which enabled the first Soviet intercontinental bomber. There are Tu-95 still flying and the engine is still used in some gas pumping and power generation facilities even today.
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Atomicfrog said:
Someone have news regarding a Chinese equivalent of SABER engine ? On the SABER side, nothing looks to move at a credible pace to achieve a working engine demonstrator in the next 10 years or more...

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Not that I've come across. This is just one of the ideas for hypersonic travel into space.

China has more interest in the detonation model:
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Also with the explosion of electro-magnetic research into the other parts of the Chinese economy and military complex, there is a movement to look at if not already developing an EM rail-fun/launcher to throw hypersonics into space:
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the idea of EM railgun launching a spacecraft looks attractive, and obviously can save a lot of costs.
however the question of whether Taikonaults can physically withstand the sudden and tremendous acceleration force from zero to 9M. I can imagine tremendous stress on the Body, the Heart, and the Spine in particular. Unless the design is solely for ICBM and other strategic missiles.

From Wikipedia: "While explosive-powered military guns cannot readily achieve a
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of more than ≈2 km/s (Mach 5.9), railguns can readily exceed 3 km/s (Mach 8.8)."
 
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Jono said:
the idea of EM railgun launching a spacecraft looks attractive, and obviously can save a lot of costs.
however the question of whether Taikonaults can physically withstand the sudden and tremendous acceleration force from zero to 9M. I can imagine tremendous stress on the Body, the Heart, and the Spine in particular. Unless the design is solely for ICBM and other strategic missiles.

From Wikipedia: "While explosive-powered military guns cannot readily achieve a
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of more than ≈2 km/s (Mach 5.9), railguns can readily exceed 3 km/s (Mach 8.8)."
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You can't accelerate a large rocket the way you are imagining it. They are simply too heavy to fire like a bullet. The idea here is to reduce the ridiculous amounts of fuel carried by rockets. If pilots can withstand catapults on carriers, astronauts can withstand less acceleration on space rockets.
 
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Jono said:
the idea of EM railgun launching a spacecraft looks attractive, and obviously can save a lot of costs.
however the question of whether Taikonaults can physically withstand the sudden and tremendous acceleration force from zero to 9M. I can imagine tremendous stress on the Body, the Heart, and the Spine in particular. Unless the design is solely for ICBM and other strategic missiles.

From Wikipedia: "While explosive-powered military guns cannot readily achieve a
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of more than ≈2 km/s (Mach 5.9), railguns can readily exceed 3 km/s (Mach 8.8)."
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It is not for launching live payloads. It could launch mass into or it that could later be assembled.
 
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sunnymaxi said:
nope. as i said in my above post. non-Chinese people don't know much about recent China's progress.

China don't need to match with western firms in commercial turbo-fan market. this is a political problem.

tech matter, this is where China exploding. Liu Daxiang an Academician from Chinese Academy of Engineering Specialized in Turbofan Engines. he said, China will be a Tier 1 player in aero engine industry by 2030.
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Never underestimate the Chinese as Gina Raimondo found out.
 
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Alfa_Particle said:
They (Orca etc.) seems to be saying that the WS-10H might not see serial production after all?
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Cost benefits over standard WS-10 not worth it? Also iterations of WS-10 (B, C, C2, etc.) are rapid so needing to apply to the Hai model repeatedly probably makes the cost benefits even worse.

Then there is the WS-15 oncoming.
 
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